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The coffee house and takeaway will offer a range of hot and cold drinks as well as pastries, muffins, cakes, sandwiches, salads, jacket potatoes, pies and sausage rolls.

It promises 'poseur bars and banquette seating' as well as community tables in the basement.

In its planning application to Stoke-on-Trent City Council, the firm stated: "This unit has most recently been occupied by a temporary retail tenant selling clothing, so the conversion to a state-of-the-art coffee shop should add amenity to the street and be welcomed by neighbouring retailers."

Traders and shoppers have welcomed the latest addition to the city centre.

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Sales assistant Sarah Hodgkinson, who works at That’s Entertainment, in Lamb Street, said: “I hope they offer something different to get people down here and away from the intu Potteries shopping centre."

The unit is currently occupied by clothing shop Gems.

Shop assistant Ali Shak said: “A coffee shop will do well here because this is a good location. It will be really nice, especially with downstairs being used because it’s a massive place downstairs. Hanley needs a coffee house like this."

Shopper Joe Fallon, aged 68, of Alsager, said: “Hanley has already got quite a few coffee shops dotted around the place. If the quality is as good as the others and the prices are reasonable then it will work. I can see why it will be appealing to some people.”